Switch 2 pricing and next PlayStation release could be impacted by memory shortage

It whitethorn instrumentality Sony different 3 years to springiness the PS5 (pictured) a successor. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

Sony and Nintendo are reportedly feeling squeezed by RAM shortages arsenic request from AI information centers takes up an expanding stock of representation spot production. In effect to rising costs and dwindling spot supplies, Sony is considering pushing backmost the merchandise of its adjacent PlayStation console "to 2028 oregon adjacent 2029," according to manufacture sources cited by Bloomberg, portion Nintendo whitethorn summation the $450 terms of its Switch 2 console this year.

That hold would beryllium a sizeable divergence from Sony's accustomed merchandise schedule, having launched a caller console procreation each six to 7 years since the archetypal PlayStation debuted successful 1994. As the curre …

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